nixers

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20-09-2024, 08:26 AM

Thread: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
Post: RE: First Time you used 'Linux' ?

I guess I was 18. First year at university. They gave me a live CD for free, there was a ladybug on the picture. That was great to do things on my own. I remember then trying ubuntu and all sort of di...

GNU/Linux

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101,103

19-09-2024, 05:00 PM

Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: RE: What do you use as a system monitor

Hi, On OpenBSD, I use this little script to output in tmux status or dwm's bar various info : mpd current song, battery remaining, audio volume, date. There are also functions for disk usage, cpu and ...

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

11,715

24-02-2022, 06:02 PM

Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine

We did it for openbsd on webzine.puffy.cafe. This is very funny. You may be interested to look at the sources (shell and templates, that's it). Nice mockup btw https://tildegit.org/solene/openbsd-web...

9,725

18-10-2021, 09:32 AM

Thread: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]

There is one thing I really miss in tty : view images, pdf and videos. I know there are some tools such as fbi, but I don't find them packaged on OpenBSD and doubt it work. Anyone has suggestion to re...

12,631

02-07-2021, 05:31 AM

Thread: Dmenu Scripts
Post: RE: Dmenu Scripts

okay, here you go, but there's not much to see. :) ## dwall Code:#!/bin/sh # change wallpaper WALLDIR=$HOME/docs/img/wallpapers test -s $HOME/.dmenurc && . $HOME/.dmenurc prom...

5,144

10-06-2021, 04:28 AM

Thread: Dmenu Scripts
Post: RE: Dmenu Scripts

Hi, very nice idea. Indeed, dmenu is extremely useful. Here are a few scripts I use almost daily. Some are quite old, and kinda ugly when I read them now. ## Appearance First, make sure they all sha...

5,144

09-06-2021, 09:42 AM

Thread: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]

Hi, nice to see other dmenus users :) That's the **only** tool I really need for almost everything : search engine, music library, app launcher (of course), ssh session, notes taking, bookmarking, man...

17,494

07-06-2021, 06:09 AM

Thread: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]

Hi, Here is my contribution.

17,494

02-06-2021, 05:20 PM

Thread: Switching From Machine To machine
Post: RE: Switching From Machine To machine

Hello, I have an old computer at home. I like it. It works perfectly, I do everything on it. But for work, I had to buy a laptop. I choosed a Lenovo x250, as I use OpenBSD and it works perfectly on it...

Hardware talk

25,576

13-01-2021, 09:43 AM

Thread: The Gemini protocol
Post: RE: The Gemini protocol

Yan can write plaintext or any format, text/gemini with gopher is what html is to http. That's all. TLS is required for privacy. I find it nice to think about it at the very first level, before doing ...

The WWW

16,742

05-01-2021, 07:39 AM

Thread: The Gemini protocol
Post: RE: The Gemini protocol

(08-08-2020, 01:36 PM)twee Wrote: Quote:It's quite common to link images Are there any clients which display links to images within the document? So if I had something like Code:Look at my house:...

The WWW

16,742

29-12-2020, 05:54 PM

Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?

To hack, I enjoy this : https://www.musicforprogramming.net And this : https://arpinux.org/goa/

Off topic

30,335

02-11-2020, 11:26 AM

Thread: twtxt
Post: RE: twtxt

I also really like the idea. It makes me think to RSS/ATOM feeds actually, to share very short ideas. Because I mostly read such news with a feed reader ([sfeed](https://codemadness.org/git/sfeed)), I...

39,442

23-10-2020, 04:47 PM

Thread: Fonts and colors.
Post: RE: Fonts and colors.

I also love Hack font. For colorsheme, Nord is my default for long now : https://www.nordtheme.com/

6,994

08-05-2020, 10:02 AM

Thread: Hey Nixers, what do you do when you are stuck on a programming/tech problem?
Post: RE: Hey Nixers, what do you do when you are stuck ...

I go running, read a book, or do anything else for a while. Then, I try to think on a sheet of paper.

Off topic

11,110

29-07-2019, 08:21 AM

Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement

Instead of remapping anything, I use this in vimrc Code:imap jk <Esc> Pressing j k quickly is enough

166,022

25-05-2019, 02:10 AM

Thread: To reboot or not to reboot
Post: RE: To reboot or not to reboot

(18-04-2019, 09:14 AM)z3bra Wrote: I think rebooting is pretty important in a computer's life, be it a laptop, desktop or server. I shutdown my dekstop everyday to save polar bears, and turn it bac...

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

15,570

19-04-2019, 04:30 AM

Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement

.xsession is the new .xinitrc :) (It's a bit more complicated than that. Under OpenBSd, a single user doesn't have permission to start an Xsession, you must use xenodm (the login manager, or another)...

166,022

19-04-2019, 04:26 AM

Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement

(16-04-2019, 05:57 AM)z3bra Wrote: I don't get it. You added this because you wanted the ability to do it without the keyboard?exactly.

166,022

16-04-2019, 11:00 AM

Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement

Yep, for inspiration, I have this to handle windows Code:#!/bin/sh # window operation # requires xdotool MSG="$(date '+%v %T')" xmessage -nearmouse -timeout 5 -buttons "-:3,+:4,-*:5,x:6" "${...

166,022

16-04-2019, 11:00 AM

Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement

I recently added to my ~/.xsession calls to xdotools in order to start some stuff when the mouse is on screen border. Code:xdotool behave_screen_edge --delay 900 bottom-left exec tkmenu & xdotool ...

166,022

16-04-2019, 05:29 AM

Thread: What is your favorite programming language to program on *nix?
Post: RE: What is your favorite programming language to ...

1. shell for most things, using sed/awk/cut is most of the time enough 2. go for web or mail parsing 3. C for everything else. I used to do a lot of python, but its sooo big and have a hube standard ...

Programming On Unix

12,652

02-04-2019, 09:59 AM

Thread: Keeping Track of Your Things
Post: RE: Keeping Track of Your Things

Most mail server allow you to pipe incoming envelopes to a script in aliases file. i.e. on openbsd smtpd, you can write in /etc/mail/aliases something like Code:toto: |/path/to/the/script The envelop...

53,955

02-04-2019, 09:57 AM

Thread: Keeping Track of Your Things
Post: RE: Keeping Track of Your Things

A cron job calling a script to remove unwanted headers and copy body to an auto index directory ?

53,955

31-03-2019, 06:14 AM

Thread: Keeping Track of Your Things
Post: RE: Keeping Track of Your Things

(28-03-2019, 03:26 PM)z3bra Wrote: I love the email idea! It would be cool to find a way to expose it, say via gopherset up the root index to the Maildir :)

53,955

30-03-2019, 10:22 AM

Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement

@wolf : omg that's great ! I guess there is a little mistake in variable. I modified it a bit to add the "continue" option to youtube-dl if the file is already retrieved: Code:#!/bin/sh MUSDIR=~/Mu...

166,022

30-03-2019, 09:49 AM

Thread: nixers.net forum theme
Post: RE: nixers.net forum theme

Thank you very much !

4,167

24-03-2019, 06:34 AM

Thread: Keeping Track of Your Things
Post: RE: Keeping Track of Your Things

Haha, nice, using email. I love how clever and simple is this idea.

53,955

23-03-2019, 08:21 AM

Thread: nixers.net forum theme
Post: nixers.net forum theme

Hi, I really like the forum theme. I would like to install it on another forum. Where can I find the files if you agree to share them ? Regards :)

4,167

23-03-2019, 08:19 AM

Thread: Keeping Track of Your Things
Post: RE: Keeping Track of Your Things

Most of the time, i write "memos" in plain text file. I use grep or dmenu to find what I need later. After a while, I write it on my website (a pseudo blog) to find them even when I'm away from home.

53,955

20-03-2019, 03:13 PM

Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement

I wanted to add magnet link in rtorrent from the hash found in omgtorrent (no torrent hosted, so not illegal) : Code:#!/bin/sh #hash to magnet (omgtorrent) T1="udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%...

166,022

22-02-2019, 07:58 AM

Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?

Jurs discovered Spleen : https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/ [Image: https://www.cambus.net/content/2018/09/s...ranger.png]

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125,292

23-01-2019, 03:24 PM

Thread: ROCK64 is amazing
Post: RE: ROCK64 is amazing

Above all, it doesn't require any proprietary firmware :). I use it as my main server with pleasure/

12,016

06-01-2019, 07:25 AM

Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement

(07-09-2015, 03:15 PM)jury Wrote: ^ That's why I'm rarely on IRC; I can never get anything else done when it's open =P Unrelated: if you don't have a constantly displayed clock (because minimalism ...

166,022

02-01-2019, 02:14 PM

Thread: ROCK64 is amazing
Post: RE: ROCK64 is amazing

For now, I use "syspatch" and "pkg_add -uv". I wan't to prepare a bunch of script to compile on my own. Or run -current. Every six month, I follow the upgrade procedure and cleanup the server. Yeah, ...

12,016

02-01-2019, 12:56 PM

Thread: ROCK64 is amazing
Post: RE: ROCK64 is amazing

I use it as my own server : web, mail, DNS authoritative, seedbox (rtorrent).

12,016

02-01-2019, 12:24 PM

Thread: ROCK64 is amazing
Post: ROCK64 is amazing

I wanted to leave Intel/AMD or any amd64 arch after meltdown/spectre and so. I found the ROCK64 (https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=7147) on the OpenBSD supported hardware and I have some fun last few da...

12,016

28-12-2018, 06:39 AM

Thread: Sharing Media
Post: RE: Sharing Media

In order to let friends sending files, I hosted for a while jirafau, which is quite simple : https://jirafeau.net/ https://gitlab.com/mojo42/Jirafeau

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

23,908

19-12-2018, 10:06 AM

Thread: Sharing Media
Post: RE: Sharing Media

To retrieve files, people use the http list (auto-index) mentioned above. sftp is just for me to put files, and many server have a ssh access. sebsauvage has a list of sharing services : https://sebsa...

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

23,908

19-12-2018, 04:51 AM

Thread: Sharing Media
Post: RE: Sharing Media

Interesting. Instead of syncthing or external services, I use more an dmore my own self-hosted server. Via sftp, I copy my files to the server (or with scp) in a directory "auto indexed" via httpd. I...

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

23,908

18-12-2018, 03:10 PM

Thread: Sharing Media
Post: RE: Sharing Media

+1 for synthing. For family or rookies, I use framadrop.org or https://transfer.sh/ Code:transfer.sh() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo -e "No arguments specified...

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

23,908

15-12-2018, 03:26 PM

Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?

Hack font, never found better : https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/